The Founder

Micheal Keaton is on a role since his career changing stint in Birdman. It’s a worthy role for some sort of award season buzz (But I doubt that will happen since it was released in January)

I only knew Micky D’s as Satan’s bar and grill, but at one point it was a wholesome Mom and Pop store (Or more accurate, Mom and Pop’s two sons, the McDonald brothers, Rick and Mack). Until Ray Kroc came along and envisioned the American staple that the restaurant would become.

As the Founder played by Micheal Keaton the movie mostly focus on Kroc’s stake in it and how he successfully franchised it (Although the movie has this cool scene in which The McDonald brothers tell the story of how they came to start the 1st Fast Food chain through an amazing flashback).

Micheal Keaton gets to play a role similar to characters such as Tony Soprano and Walter White, he starts out a struggling Milk shake machine salesmen whose ambition makes him hustle for more out of life. Then he meets the McDonald Brothers and struggles to franchise their invention, The Fast Food restaurant. You start to like him cause he’s the underdog trying to keep the quality of the restaurant while extending the quantity  of what is his franchise, and Keaton’s performance makes  you forget that this is the man who basically turn McDonald’s into a massively powerful conglomerate and ambitious guys can’t do that being nice as the movie proves.

Just like with the Sopranos and Breaking Bad The Founder humanizes Ray Kroc, using Keaton’s performance. He’s a good guy, but when it comes to businesses he will not stop until  his vision is met, and that’s what makes this movie so good.

Plus, it was interesting seeing the birth of McDonald’s. don’t get me wrong, I act like I never had a Big Mac before (which is never mentioned in the film so I guess it did not exist before 1970), but the story displays how someone could have a beautiful baby and then that innocent child would grow up to be Trump.

Below the gut Jab, I know but the movie does a good job of examining the difference between those who have talent and those who have real focus and only the truly determine can make a name out of the golden arches, and that is The Founder. Check it out.